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On June 5, 830: Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring Christian orthodoxy and icons.

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Featured moment · 830

Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring Christian orthodoxy and icons.

Theodora, sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842. Following Theophilos's death, the widowed Theodora acted as regent for the couple's young son, Michael III, until her son deposed her in 856.

People

Born on June 5

Chaeryeong 2001– South Korean singer and dancer (born 2001)
Kale Clague 1998– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Jaqueline Cristian 1998– Romanian tennis player (born 1998)
Dave 1998– British rapper (born 1998)
Yulia Lipnitskaya 1998– Russian figure skater (born 1998)
Sam Darnold 1997– American football player (born 1997)
Troye Sivan 1995– Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1995)
Ross Wilson 1995– British table tennis player
Roger Tuivasa-Sheck 1993– New Zealand and Samoa international dual-code rugby player
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Joazhiño Arroe 1992– Peruvian footballer (born 1992)
Emily Seebohm 1992– Australian swimmer (born 1992)
Sören Bertram 1991– German footballer
Ninja 1991– American streamer and YouTuber (born 1991)
Radko Gudas 1990– Czech ice hockey player (born 1990)
Cam Atkinson 1989– American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Megumi Nakajima 1989– Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1989)
Alessandro Salvi 1988– Italian footballer (born 1988)
Marcus Thornton 1987– American basketball player

People

Died on June 5

Astrud Gilberto Brazilian singer (1940–2023)
T. B. Joshua Nigerian Christian leader (1963–2021)
Kate Spade American fashion designer (1962–2018)
Andy Cunningham English actor and puppeteer (1950–2017)
Cheick Tioté Ivorian footballer (1986–2017)
Jerome Bruner American psychologist and scholar (1915–2016)
Tariq Aziz Iraqi Assyrian politician (1936–2015)
Alan Bond Australian businessman (1938–2015)
Richard Johnson British actor (1927–2015)
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Roger Vergé French chef and restaurateur
Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi Iraqi ISIL leader (1971–2014)
Don Davis Musical artist
Reiulf Steen Norwegian politician (1933–2014)
Helen McElhone Scottish politician
Stanisław Nagy Polish cardinal (born 1921)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Irish republican politician and military leader (1932–2013)
Michel Ostyn Belgian physiologist
Ray Bradbury American writer (1920–2012)

Timeline

Every June 5 on record

  1. 830 Theodora is crowned Byzantine empress and marries then emperor Theophilos in the Hagia Sophia. She is credited with restoring Christian orthodoxy and icons.

    Byzantine empress (c. 815 – c. 867 CE)

    Theodora, sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842. Following Theophilos's death, the widowed Theodora acted as regent for the couple's young son, Michael III, until her son deposed her in 856.

  2. 1086 Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, defeats Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, the Turkish ruler of Anatolia in the battle of Ain Salm.

    Sultan of Damascus from 1092 to 1094

    Abu Sa'id Taj al-Dawla Tutush or Tutush I, was the Seljuk emir of Damascus from 1078 to 1092, and sultan of Damascus from 1092 to 1094.

  3. 1257 Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.

    City in Poland

    Kraków, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 (2023), with 1,428,363 people living in the Kraków metropolitan area. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life.

  4. 1284 Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno.

    1284 naval battle during the War of the Sicilian Vespers

    The Battle of the Gulf of Naples was a naval engagement during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. Fought on 5 June 1284 in the south of the Gulf of Naples, the battle saw an Aragonese–Sicilian fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeat a Angevin fleet commanded by Prince Charles of Salerno. Charles was captured during the battle, and the Aragonese victory helped secure Aragonese control of the sea around Sicily.

  5. 1288 The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors.

    Part of the War of the Limburg Succession

    The Battle of Worringen was fought on 5 June 1288 near the town of Worringen, which is now part of Chorweiler, the northernmost borough (Stadtbezirk) of Cologne. It was the decisive battle of the War of the Limburg Succession, fought for the possession of the Duchy of Limburg between on one side the Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne and Count Henry VI of Luxembourg, and on the other side, Duke John I of Brabant.

  6. 1610 The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
  7. 1644 The Qing dynasty's Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor take Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty.
  8. 1794 Haitian Revolution: Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture the capital of Saint-Domingue.
  9. 1798 Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
  10. 1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
  11. 1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
  12. 1832 The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe.
  13. 1837 Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
  14. 1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
  15. 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
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  1. 1862 As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
  2. 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
  3. 1873 Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  4. 1879 The Zungeni Mountain skirmish took place between British and Zulu forces during the second invasion of the Zulu Kingdom.
  5. 1883 The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  6. 1888 The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
  7. 1893 The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
  8. 1900 Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.
  9. 1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
  10. 1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
  11. 1916 World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
  12. 1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
  13. 1940 World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red").
  14. 1941 World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
  15. 1942 World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.

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